Your personnel cannot gain skills while facing this dilemma. Unless you have Intelligence, Officer, and Programming or Exobiology, Medical, and Treachery, randomly select a personnel to be stopped and if this dilemma's owner chooses to lose 5 points, then add 10 to each attribute requirement of this mission until the end of this mission attempt.
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